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Lansing, MICH. Michigan State Housing Development Authority, in collaboration with the Michigan Homeowner Assistance Nonprofit Housing Corporation , launches the Step Forward Down Payment Assistance program, providing $20 million in loan funds to assist in neighborhood stabilization and prevent foreclosures in areas of the state that still reflect high rates of delinquency and foreclosure, negative equity, bank-owned properties and short sales.
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Michigan Lawyers Weekly The Michigan resource for legal news, up-to-date court opinions and the latest law practice news and views. Where a real estate agent repeatedly and explicitly stated, incorrectly, that an adjacent garden lot was included in a residential property sale, the agent was foreclosed from raising as a defense to a post-sale suit for fraud and misrepresentation that the buyers could have determined from information available to them that the garden lot was not included in the sale.
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I hope everyone had a good Labor Day! I didn't enjoy the fact that my Michigan Wolverines lost. But my sister, a Michigan fan by birth, started her freshman year at Michigan State last week and only rubbed it in a little when we saw her on Sunday.
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National Headlines

Home-renting company Airbnb Inc said on Monday it would remove listings in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, a move Israel called a "wretched capitulation" to boycotters and Palestinians hailed as a step towards peace. FILE PHOTO: A woman talks on the phone at the Airbnb office headquarters in the SOMA district of San Francisco, California, U.S., August 2, 2016.
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Dear Mr. Premack: I was interested in your earlier article about children inheriting property. In my will I have stated that my house be sold only and that my children equally divide their share of proceeds.
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This past week it was oil taking the bear baton from equities, leading the market lower and focusing investor minds. It's been hard going for the asset class - excessive supply builds in the US, weakening global growth, the granting of waivers to buyers of Iranian crude and what looked like technical selling mid-week all helped to keep pressure on crude.
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Colliers International notes that B.C. residents were among those most in favour of legalizing cannabis, but its recent survey of worker attitudes found the province's office tenants are also the most likely to favour tight restrictions on the marketing, sale and use of cannabis in office buildings. Just 26 per cent felt cannabis should be modestly or mostly unrestricted.
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